Brainy picked up the incredulity for what it was and smirked slightly.
"With a scanning power like yours - and the fact you have functioning eyes - I would have thought that it was already transparently clear that I'm not human."
He took the IV catheter and showed him very carefully how to unwrap it, prep it, tap to find a viable vein, and insert it, slowly and carefully. Then he started to rig up all the IVs, again, going slowly, so that Tadashi could see how all the tubing intersected.
"I'm a Coluan. My species is known for its high intelligence and relative longevity. We have lifespans that sometimes exceed six hundred Earth years and on the Coluan intelligence scale, the average Coluan is a level eight. Earth in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is about a six. That's all of Earth, mind you - every mind, every computer, the processing power of the entire planet. The scale used to only go to ten once but they had to adjust it due to the mutation prevalent in my family line. I'm a twelfth level intellect, capable of multiple simultaneous tracks of consciousness."
The IVs helped stabilize their patient even more and they did it quickly. His heartbeat started to grow stronger on the monitors.
"Our species was exploring the stars while humans were still discovering the basic scientific principle of 'fire good.'"
Brainy bustled back over to the other side to continue his work on his shoulder.
"You're going to have to get used to the concept of sapient non-Terran life rather quickly, you know. Even some of the individuals here at the Pole that seem human aren't. Superboy, for instance, isn't capable of flying just because of his myth powers. He's half-human but also half-Kryptonian, an alien species that looks identical to humans externally but has wildly different physiology under the skin."
He gestured at Jaime with the tweezers.
"Just like this young man seems to be biologically human but appears to be a host to a bio-organic parasite or symbiote -"
Brainy had referred to it as a symbiote before just on the off chance calling it a parasite would piss it off but he'd never actually confirmed it was.
However, he was interrupted almost immediately by the medical monitor screens warping and words appearing:
SYMB|[]TE, N[]T P/-\R/-\S|TE. S[] RUDE.
Brainy continued, slightly more politely, "He appears to be a host to this endosymbiont, who is apparently capable of using its host's auditory sensory organs even while he's unconscious."
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"With a scanning power like yours - and the fact you have functioning eyes - I would have thought that it was already transparently clear that I'm not human."
He took the IV catheter and showed him very carefully how to unwrap it, prep it, tap to find a viable vein, and insert it, slowly and carefully. Then he started to rig up all the IVs, again, going slowly, so that Tadashi could see how all the tubing intersected.
"I'm a Coluan. My species is known for its high intelligence and relative longevity. We have lifespans that sometimes exceed six hundred Earth years and on the Coluan intelligence scale, the average Coluan is a level eight. Earth in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is about a six. That's all of Earth, mind you - every mind, every computer, the processing power of the entire planet. The scale used to only go to ten once but they had to adjust it due to the mutation prevalent in my family line. I'm a twelfth level intellect, capable of multiple simultaneous tracks of consciousness."
The IVs helped stabilize their patient even more and they did it quickly. His heartbeat started to grow stronger on the monitors.
"Our species was exploring the stars while humans were still discovering the basic scientific principle of 'fire good.'"
Brainy bustled back over to the other side to continue his work on his shoulder.
"You're going to have to get used to the concept of sapient non-Terran life rather quickly, you know. Even some of the individuals here at the Pole that seem human aren't. Superboy, for instance, isn't capable of flying just because of his myth powers. He's half-human but also half-Kryptonian, an alien species that looks identical to humans externally but has wildly different physiology under the skin."
He gestured at Jaime with the tweezers.
"Just like this young man seems to be biologically human but appears to be a host to a bio-organic parasite or symbiote -"
Brainy had referred to it as a symbiote before just on the off chance calling it a parasite would piss it off but he'd never actually confirmed it was.
However, he was interrupted almost immediately by the medical monitor screens warping and words appearing:
SYMB|[]TE, N[]T P/-\R/-\S|TE. S[] RUDE.
Brainy continued, slightly more politely, "He appears to be a host to this endosymbiont, who is apparently capable of using its host's auditory sensory organs even while he's unconscious."